Quotes About Longing

Il ne cherche pas à savoir où la rejoindre. Il ne pense pas à la rejoindre. Il veut rester seul pour savoir, pour penser à elle, l'aimer.   Ils

I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.

Ça a toujours été trop tard pour ne plus vous aimer.

I notice that I desire him.

The only times she did speak was to say how impossible it was for her to express how boring and long it was, how interminable it was, to be Lol Stein. They asked her to try and pull herself together. She didn't understand why she should, she said. The difficulty she experienced in searching for a single word seemed insurmountable. She acted as though she expected nothing further from life.

You go on talking, all alone in the world, just as you wish. You say love has always struck you as out of place, you've never understood, you've always avoided loving, always wanted to be free not to. You say you're lost. But that you don't know what you're lost to. Or in.

I desperately want to partake of the world which emerges from the lips of Lol Stein, I want to be a part of this lie which she has forged. Let her bear me with her, let our affair take, from this point forth, a different course, let her consume and crush me with the rest, I shall bend to her will, let my hope be to be crushed with the rest, to be bent to her will.

Tout à coup j'ai eu le désir de votre bouche comme si vous étiez mon premier amant.

And I have nothing like that. My mother says, This one will never be satisfied with anything. I think I'm beginning to see my life.

And what if the Vice-Consul of Lahore were no more than one man among the many looking for a woman with whom he hoped to find oblivion?

I want to be with you, you've no idea how I want to be with you.

Dans l'ombre de ces villas, elles se regardent pour plus tard, elles croient vivre un roman, elles ont déjà les longues penderies pleines de robes à ne savoir qu'en faire, collectionnées comme le temps, la longue suite des jours d'attente.

Ainsi cependant vous avez pu vivre cet amour de la seule façon qui puisse se faire pour vous, en le perdant avant qu'il soit advenu.

Loneliness does not arise so much from something lost as from a longing for something well remembered. Isolation cares nothing for memory.

Reason: Ah, Love, says Reason, when are such Souls in the true freedom of Pure Love? Love: When they have no longing, no feeling, and at no time any affection of the spirit; for such customs would enslave them, being too far away from the peace of freedom in which few men permit themselves to dwell. And also they do nothing, says Love, which is opposed to the peace of their inner being, and so in peace they bear the orders of Love.

aveva dovuto credersi amato ben poco per non sentire che perderlo sarebbe stato per me il peggiore dei mali.

Sometimes, after long intervals, I have thought to feel the slight stir of an approach, a touch as light as the contact of eyelashes and warm as the hollow of a hand. And the shade of Patroclus appears at Achilles' side..

Ik wist toen nog niet dat de dood voorwerp kan worden van een blinde drang, van een honger zoals de liefde. Ik had niet die nachten voorzien waarin ik mijn riem om mijn dolk zou wikkelen om mezelf te dwingen tweemaal na te denken alvorens mij ervan te bedienen. Alleen Arrianos is doorgedrongen tot het geheim van dat roemloze gevecht tegen de leegte, de dorheid, de vermoeienis, de walging van het bestaan die uitloopt op het verlangen te sterven.

Maent yn dweud fy mod yn caru, Lle nad wyf, mi allaf dyngu. Yn lle 'rwyf yn caru mwyaf Y mae lleiaf sôn amdanaf.

I think I might die if I don't kiss you right now. A real-life kiss.

All that I knew for sure is, I wanted to be as happy as possible for as long as I'd got, and my every second was so much better with Hugh than without him.

La corrente della vita mi spingeva in avanti, ma io resistevo. Preferivo il passato, non ancora convinta che con Shay fosse davvero finita. Quando lo avevo salutato sul traghetto non sapevo che sarebbero trascorsi quindici anni prima di rivederlo.

preferably desperate. And

We always want what we can't have.